RUSH Live - YYZ & Neil Peart Drum Solo - 2022 Deluxe Remaster - Birmingham, 1988

The story of why it took me over a month to upload this video - So, a few months ago someone sent me a digitized copy of the ASOH Laserdisc from back in the day, and to my surprise the audio was drastically different than the DVD sourced clips that we are accustomed to seeing on Youtube. Though not perfect, it had exponentially more dynamic range than the 2006 re-release, was a lot crisper and less twangy, but the two most significant things I noticed were the drums and Geddy’s vocals. Though the cymbals and toms are mostly mixed too low in my opinion, the kick and snare slammed much harder than I was used to. More surprising was that handful of Geddy’s vocal lines that are auto-tuned on the DVD were not a product of the late ’80s that hadn’t aged well as I previously assumed, as there is no autotune in the original mix at all. Even weirder, the vocals that had autotune applied to them on the DVD not only sounded better originally, but they were totally in tune, so I have no idea why th